[Twisted-web] Remove addSlash from Nevow

Valentino Volonghi aka Dialtone dialtone at divmod.com
Sat Jul 23 05:39:12 MDT 2005


Matt Goodall wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Nevow's addSlash sometimes causes problems (see LivePage) and some
>people are a bit confused by it anyway.
>
>I know it's been in Nevow (twisted.web too?) for a long time but perhaps
>we should remove it from rend.Page and either:
>
>* Leave it completely to the application to expliticly implement the
>behaviour if that's what they want
>* Provide a mixin (or some sort of "pluggable" code) that resources can
>use to pick up the addSlash behaviour.
>
>Thoughts?
>  
>
I think that the trailing / only makes sense when dealing with directory
listing.
A Page, unless it's a Directory shouldn't use the /.

addSlash is really awful and should really go away.

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